John C. Polanyi

John Charles Polanyi is a Canadian Chemist and a Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry (1986). His winning work was the study of dynamics of chemical elementary reactions. Polanyi’s research is focused on chemical dynamics, determining mechanics of chemical reactions and properties of chemical species in the transition state. John Polanyi developed the technique of infrared chemiluminescence which helps in understanding chemical kinetics.

225. Cherif F. Matta and John C. Polanyi, Chemistry on a Peg-Board: The Effect of Adatom-to-Adatom Separation on the Reactivity of Dihalobenzenes at Si(111)-7�7 Surfaces, Philisophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 362, 1185 (2004). doi:10.1098/rsta.2004.1371 LAR-7